Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

In his “sensible, sympathetic and thorough” biography, the American scholar Leo Damrosch chronicles Stevenson’s “fascinating” ...

In a video to mark the occasion, an N.Y.U. associate professor talked about the origins of pirate lingo. By James Barron In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S.

Yet even Robert Louis Stevenson, the genius behind The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, had moments when the ink dried, distractions crept in, and the story refused to find its end.

Between hanging out with literary pals like Henry James, traveling from Scotland to St. Helena to Samoa, and battling nagging illnesses, it’s amazing that Robert Louis Stevenson ever found time to ...

IN 1890 Henry Adams, seeking distraction from the recent death of his wife, traveled into the Pacific with his friend John La Farge. In October they reached Samoa, where their appropriately august ...